Terry Dresbach was expecting a bit more of a fuss from her family when she returned to the workforce after a hiatus of about a decade to become costume designer for the Starz hit show “Outlander.”

“You don’t seem any different than you ever were,” her teenage son told her. “It doesn’t seem to matter if you’re putting on the Halloween carnival or working on a TV show. It sort of feels exactly the same.”

Dresbach laughs at the thought. “I did my job too well,” she says, from her home in Los Angeles.